Image to Text (OCR)
100% PrivateFile & Data ConversionExtract the words from a picture, like a photo of a notice or a screenshot of a document.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to Ovatly or anywhere else.
This reader handles English text only. The recognition engine (Tesseract) and its English language data are downloaded from a public CDN the first time you run it and cached by your browser; after that it works offline. Other languages are not offered because each one would mean another language data download. Your image itself is never uploaded: recognition runs in a worker on your device.
- 1Choose an image with the file box; a preview appears so you can check you picked the right one.
- 2Press Read the text and watch the progress bar (the first run also downloads the engine and English data).
- 3Read through the recognized text in the result box and fix any mistakes you spot; you can edit it right there.
- 4Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.
Give the tool a clear screenshot of the notice "Meeting moved to Friday" and it returns exactly that line, with the summary "4 words, 1 lines, 23 characters" underneath. Longer images return their full text in reading order, with the counts updated to match.
- English only. Each extra language would mean downloading that language's data file, so this tool keeps to one language; the engine and English data download from a public CDN on first use and are then cached by your browser.
- Clear, high-contrast images work best. Handwriting, decorative fonts, skewed photos and low-contrast scans produce errors or nothing at all.
- Your image is never uploaded: recognition runs in a worker on your device. Only the engine files are downloaded, never your picture sent anywhere.
No. The Tesseract engine runs entirely in your browser. The only downloads are the engine and its English language data, fetched once from a public CDN and cached.
About this tool
The Image to Text reader extracts the words from a picture: a photo of a notice, a screenshot of a document, a scanned page. It uses the Tesseract OCR engine running in your browser, and shows the recognized text with word and line counts so you can copy or download it.
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